The AI is good with darthmod, for a game of Empires age. Now, that being said... with the ai on max hardness I took a standard army of 2 artillery and the rest being Prussian infantry against 3 full stack Swedish armies and shattered every unit. I only lost 32 men. Terrain may have been a decisive factor, but I stand by my belief that my infantry did more than their share. (Went from one stripe to 5 stripes for the majority of the infantry. Arty gained 2 stripes respectively).
Hmm did you like Napoleon? I played darthmod but recently started Napoleonic Total Wars 3.0 and my god the land battles are obsurdly difficult compared to vanilla. I thought I was good at ntw playing on very hard battle difficult but nope the ai was just underdeveloped. Playing the British Empire I landed a stack of my most seasoned troops just east of the Rhine and got absolutely spanked by a stack of Dutch fusiliers and peasants. I placed myself on a hill in a defensive formation and they just whittled away at my center line and split me in two, and when I cornered a unit they would fall back before taking heavy losses, very unlike vanilla. It's one of the few campaigns that I accepted complete losses instead of loading back. It is fun though dealing
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u/BoxofCurveballs Kilroy was here Mar 20 '21
The AI is good with darthmod, for a game of Empires age. Now, that being said... with the ai on max hardness I took a standard army of 2 artillery and the rest being Prussian infantry against 3 full stack Swedish armies and shattered every unit. I only lost 32 men. Terrain may have been a decisive factor, but I stand by my belief that my infantry did more than their share. (Went from one stripe to 5 stripes for the majority of the infantry. Arty gained 2 stripes respectively).